Mycelium

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Projects. A unique blend of art and science that reveals the hidden machinations of the natural world. One set of threads after incubation.

Here the threads have been inoculated seperately with two different bacteria that are initially white. However, when these two strains are allowed to mix with each other and communicate, they produce a purple pigment.This is clearly visible at the junction or node where the two species have mixed and are communicating with one another One set of threads after incubation. One thread was inoculated with a purple pigmented bacterium and the other with a red one. I like the way that purple has beaten red to the junction and prevented it travelling any further. The threads just after inoculation. Three days incubation. Red/Purple Three days incubation The bacteria following threads laid out in quite complex patterns I first saw hints of this phenomenon a few years ago when I was growing bacteria on textiles for a collborative art project with Anna Dumitriu but have only now started to explore it further. Algal thread preparation Culture of the algal threads. Mycelium. Cultivation.

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Turgor pressure. Turgor pressure pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall of plant, bacteria, and fungi cells as well as those protist cells which have cell walls.

This pressure, turgidity, is caused by the osmotic flow of water from area of low solute concentration outside of the cell into the cell's vacuole, which has a higher solute concentration. Healthy plant cells are turgid and plants rely on turgidity to maintain rigidity. In contrast, this phenomenon is not observed in animal cells which have no cell walls to prevent them from being burst by the flow of water into the cell and must either continually pump out water or live in an isotonic solution where there is no osmotic pressure.

The frames were taken approximately 12 hours apart over a period of six days. Spinellus fusiger growing on fungi Moldy tomatoes A mold (US) or mould (UK / NZ / AU / CA) is a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae.[1][2] In contrast, fungi that can adopt a single celled growth habit are called yeasts. Molds are a large and taxonomically diverse number of fungal species where the growth of hyphae results in discoloration and a fuzzy appearance, especially on food.[3] The network of these tubular branching hyphae, called a mycelium, is considered a single organism. Molds cause biodegradation of natural materials, which can be unwanted when it becomes food spoilage or damage to property.

Biology[edit] Molds reproduce by producing large numbers of small spores,[6] which may contain a single nucleus or be multinucleate. Common molds[edit] Food production[edit] The Kōji (麹?)
Ascomycota. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera.